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Treeleaf Shirts have shipped!

I know many of you have been anxiously awaiting your t-shirts and I'm pleased to say, they have all been shipped today! My estimation on shipping while close wasn't perfect, but we know this for the future should we do something like this again.

Please let me know when you get your order so I can check you off my list. Again, thanks for being patient with me while I work through my backlog of tasks to-do.

Yugen should be posting shortly that we have made our donation to Save The Children funded through our shirt sales.

OK folks - on all your behalf a contribution of $260.00 (USD) has been made to Save the Children. I have forwarded appropriate electronic receipts to Seimyo and cc'd Jundo.

Gassho
Yugen

Last edited by Yugen; 01-22-2013 at 12:17 AM.

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Please take all my comments with a grain of salt - I am a novice priest and anything I say is to be taken with a good dose of skepticism - Shodo Yugen

Here is financial data from the Paypal account - Chris and I have not yet reconciled (he also has an excel spreadsheet) - there are at least two deltas we have to narrow down: 1) the fee Paypal charges for each transaction (which we did not figure into the total price per shirt), and 2) at least one t-shirt for which payment was returned to sender by Paypal. We will have a final reconciliation within a day or two.

All payments have been made so the shortfall is internal. Chris and I will reconcile and make our final report shortly. The interesting part is that just over 23% of total funds (minus Paypal fees) went to charitable contribution. We did not adjust the contribution amount to keep us in the black because the commitment made was to contribute 5.00 USD per shirt to the designated charity. Chris and I will deal with the delta.

Gassho
Yugen

Last edited by Yugen; 01-22-2013 at 04:05 AM.

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Please take all my comments with a grain of salt - I am a novice priest and anything I say is to be taken with a good dose of skepticism - Shodo Yugen

I still have some serious reservations about whether this is a cost effective way to get some money to charity, but that is for any next time. We can just enjoy these shirts. T-shirt weather is right around the corner.

There were a couple of glitches, but nothing too dramatic. We had one repeat order and one that has to be repaid, but so far this is how it looks. Please note that the entire amount projected to be donated to Save The Children was donated. Any overruns or unanticipated costs were absorbed on this run.

Seimyo,
So you and I are .01 off in reconciliation. I was over by .01 in the shipping category. Darn. I'm not quitting my day job.

Gassho
Yugen

Last edited by Yugen; 01-22-2013 at 04:23 AM.

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Please take all my comments with a grain of salt - I am a novice priest and anything I say is to be taken with a good dose of skepticism - Shodo Yugen

I still have some serious reservations about whether this is a cost effective way to get some money to charity, but that is for any next time. We can just enjoy these shirts. T-shirt weather is right around the corner.

Gassho, Jundo

I'm inclined to agree with you at this point Jundo. It was a great exercise, but it required a lot of time and accounting. In the future I'd be inclined to just sell a couple of different designs on RedBubble or like service where people can order shirts any time they desire. We won't make nearly as much for charity, but it would make something.

Thank you so much for your efforts in this undertaking, Seimyo, Yugen and Kyonin! While you have generously offered to absorb the overage this time, I'm with everyone else, I'd be happy to help make up the extra costs!

Yay! Really looking forward to the t-shirt showing up. Should it be decided to try this again, I for one would be more than willing to pay more in order to help offset the additional costs, and give more to charity.

Neika / Ian Adams

寧 Nei - Peaceful/Courteous
火 Ka - Fire

Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil. --Dogen

My tee shirt arrived today coincidentally on the same day that I had the first Wednesday night sitting group at my home! It looks great, advertises Treeleaf and the black shirt with white lettering is remarkably slimming (I thought as I ate a homemade cinnamon roll my Zinnie friend brought to zazen).

I'd been thinking for some time to begin a sitting group where I live because there aren't any near by. A meditation group meets regularly at a chemical dependency treatment in town. Each month the group practices a different kind of meditation. This month, Jokai, a Zen priest from Yokoji Zen Center, is introducing zazen. Another friend I met last year at Yokoji was there, too. A third guy at the meeting was interested in a sitting group so there was the beginning! Tonight, one called off with the sniffles but Ken and I did two sessions of sitting with kinhin in between. It's a start!!!

Gassho, Shawn Jakudo Hinton
It all begins when we say, “I”. Everything that follows is illusion.
"Even to speak the word Buddha is dragging in the mud soaking wet; Even to say the word Zen is a total embarrassment."
寂道